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[mapsedge]

Talked to D. Reardon today. It's been since well before Christmas since our last conversation, but as I told him: when you're not looking and forget to duck periodically, life happens to you. I'm terrible at keeping up with people who aren't thrust in front of me by circumstance.

Many of you are now grinning, thinking, "No shit, William (or in some cases, Bill). Really?"

It's not that I don't care, don't genuinely miss every one of You Who Know Whom You Are, it's just that, well, damnit, I overwhelm easily, left to my own devices. I manage time about as well as, say, a dairy farmer in the midst of a stampeding herd of undermilked Holsteins.

Today, Michelle helped me conquer that inertia, so I called. (She handed me the phone with his number programmed in, the "Talk" button pushed, and said, "It's ringing.") Life as usual, for both of us, and it took a good half-hour to express that simple idea. It's like that with someone you honestly like, isn't it?

Making curtains for the nursery of a friend of ours who just had baby; got tights orders to fill; need to get the first coat of finish on nine kitchen cabinets in the middle of being installed. As I say, life happens.

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[rougewench.livejournal.com]

Hell, I'm terrible at keeping up with those I do see on a regular basis.

One of the things I've dug about this entire LJ thing is that I've both had a chance to keep up with people I care about, but I've also had the opportunity to better come to know those I would only see once or twice a year (and then only really in passing).

Glad to hear that the world is the world with Mr. R.


D.

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

It amazes me still - and I didn't come to this realization until I grew past my adolescence at ren fest - how many people I know that I don't really know. My partners at work, friends made through ren fest, hell, for that matter, my wife until 1998 when we started to reassemble the pieces of our marriage that I'd scattered about.

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

My dear, I think a lot of people go through life in just that manner...


D.

[eacole72.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who had Issues keeping up with people.

Which brings up the question ... How is he?

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

He expressed it this way: business as usual.

The phrase "May you lead an interesting life" is considered a curse in Chinese. He considers himself fortunate that his life is, at this moment, not terribly interesting.

Look for the wagon at Norman; Mansfield; and St. Louis; but not at Muskogee.

[purpledumbass.livejournal.com]

William, I honestly know exactly what you mean with your post. A little thing here, a big event there.... We all go rushing about and forget to take the time to give our good friends a simple call to catch up with their respective lives. I'm glad that this LJ forum has been a bit of a jumpstart to reconnect some of that as well...